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#93325 01/30/03 05:08 PM
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Where's Pfranz Capfka when you 'needham'.

Is this like "Waiting for Godot"???


#93326 01/30/03 07:12 PM
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I first heard " 'er indoors" from a London-born neighbour when I were a rugrat, long before George and Denis used it. Loved it, even then. "The Minder" scriptwriters just picked it up. It appears to be quite a common East End term.

- Pfranz

#93327 01/30/03 11:56 PM
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And what's your take on faldage being an olde English word that relates to sheep, Pfranz?



#93328 01/31/03 04:57 AM
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hub-bub, with the hyphen, gets 5,720 hits on Google

O my darlin'....that don't mean it's right! If you Google "Artic" you get 327,000 hits (and a little note saying, "Did you mean ARCTIC?"!) Google the kerrect spelling, Arctic, and you get 3,120,000 hits.

Proportions pretty close to what you get for hub-bub and hubbub, doncha think? but in each case, the former is WRONG, dagnabbit!

Which is my verbose way of saying: I vote for Number One!


#93329 01/31/03 07:13 AM
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And what's your take on faldage being an olde English word that relates to sheep, Pfranz?

Oh, I don't know, Juan, I think I'll take damned near any crap from a man who has flying squirrels ensconced in his rafters ... sheep are easy meat by comparison!

Quite apart from which, I already knew where faldage came from, even if I'm not sure why Faldage took the word on as his sobriquet!

- Pfranz

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http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=12358

A friend of Wordwind's daughter has told me that I look like a Faldage.

Whatever *that means.


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